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Hainault Forest Website Rare Breeds Farm and Zoo |
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HOME PAGE PHOTO INDEX AQUATIC MINIBEASTS BUTTERFLIES DOG BREEDS DRAGONFLIES LEAF MINES MAMMALS MINIBEASTS MOTHS |
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Furby the Barn owl welcomes you to Foxburrows to meet some new arrivals, like these calves who will stay with us for a while..... |
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| .....and here are the Nubian goats....... | |||||
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......and the Toggenberg and the Golden Guernsey goats. The GOLDEN GUERNSEY goat is a rare breed. Syrian in origin, the modern stock have been bred from a small herd discovered in the Channel Island of Guernsey in the 1920's. Remember the young lambs in the Centre in the Spring? Perhaps you helped to give them their bottle ....... |
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Here are some of the other animals........ |
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Buff Orpington hen. |
Light Sussex chick in spring and now as a handsome Cockerel. |
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| DONKEYS Zephyr and Herbie are geldings. The Donkey or Ass came to Britain with the Romans. The name Donkey was coined in the 18th century and may refer to its dun colour. |
WEST AFRICAN PYGMY goat. Photo: S.Sawhney |
WEST AFRICAN PYGMY goats. Photo: Nicole Khan |
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| TORDDU or Badger face. A Welsh mountain breed. Torddu means black belly. The black starts under the chin and continues under the belly to the end of the tail. The black eye stripes give it a badger appearance. | TORDDU or Badger Face sheep. The tail in this breed is long. Second from left is a Poll Dorset sheep for comparison. |
TORDDU or Badger Face sheep. This is the ram lamb at 4 months. Only the ram has horns in this breed. |
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JACOB SHEEP. The two ewes are new arrivals at the farm. They were born in January 2004. Jacob sheep have been known from Biblical times, reaching Britain in the 18th century as parkland animals. Both sexes have horns. |
SOAY SHEEP are a hardy primitive breed of sheep. Feral herds roam on St. Kilda in the Outer Hebrides, | NORFOLK HORN SHEEP were farmed in the forest prior to 1851 possibly on Lawn Farm, a farm which was cut in the woodland behind Hainault Lodge. | |||
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Calves that will stay with us for a while. |
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Paxo the turkey. He is an AMERICAN BRONZE TURKEY. |
Gregory the CHINESE gander. Chinese geese were originally bred from wild Swan geese and have been domesticated for 3000 years. | Gregory with daughter left, and two hybrids. | |||
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| TAMWORTH sows enjoying the sun. They do not suffer sunburn and are exported to S.E.Asia, Australia and N.America. Their wild boar ancestry shows in their long snout which is good for digging. |
TAMWORTH sow |
TAMWORTH sow |
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Rabbits |
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LITTLE OWL |
BARN OWL |
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